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1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2017 21:35:00 EDT Mike Gerwitz
   I can't even remember the last time I used AIM, but it was a program/protocol that served as a social pillar of my childhood---it was the social media of my generation, which I can recall using as young as the age of nine. (I'm turning 28 this month.) MSN Messenger and YIM were in there too. Good fun was had back in the day hacking IRC bots for MSN Chat. (That's actually the only time I've written Perl---an upgrade from mIRC scripting!) MySpace came around at some point, but the real communication happened on AIM/YIM/MSN. And IRC for a select group of friends.
   
   It's an entire world I lost long, long ago. And while I had no intent on trying to go back to it (not that it was an option anyway), the finality of AIM's sunsetting does bring on nostalgia, despite my last use being over a decade ago.
   
   I'm starting to make myself feel old. (Nevermind the 17yo employee at work that didn't know what the modem sound of a fax was. That's the sound I heard when dialing in to chat on AIM!)
   1. Pati (pati@gnusocial.ch)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2017 21:52:36 EDT Pati

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      @mikegerwitz my collegues at the university tended to use icq back in the days. I still remember the new message sound which was a sample of a dying Lemming. Ohoh